Definition of Strength

1.n. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.

Literary usage of Strength

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson (1905)"(14) Gaging with sea water does not affect the ultimate strength of mortars.
(See p. 159.) (15) The unit fiber stress in a cement or mortar beam is about ..."

2.A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry by David Talbot Day (1922)"James E. Howard's tests (Iron Age, April 10, 1890) show that the tensile strength
of steel diminishes as the temperature increases from 0° until a minimum ..."